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author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100 |
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committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100 |
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Revert "rename open_issues.mdwn to service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663.mdwn"
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diff --git a/open_issues/glibc/mremap.mdwn b/open_issues/glibc/mremap.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c17506d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/glibc/mremap.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_glibc]] + +The Hurd does not currently support the `mremap` function. + +For the `MREMAP_MAYMOVE` case it is easy to work around; see +`[binutils]/gold/mremap.c`, for example. + +Also see the discussion of [[glibc/mmap]]. + +[[!toc]] + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-01-12 + + <antrik> maybe it would be easiest actually to implement mremap()?... + <braunr> antrik: i'm nto sure + <braunr> antrik: implementing mremap could be relatively easy to do + actually + <braunr> antrik: IIRC, vm_map() supports overlapping + <antrik> braunr: yes, I think so too + <antrik> braunr: haven't checked, but I have a vague recollection that the + fundamentals are pretty much there + +[[!taglink open_issue_glibc]]: check if it is possible to implement `mremap`. +[[I|tschwinge]] remember some discussion about this, but have not yet worked on +locating it. [[Talk to me|tschwinge]] if you'd like to have a look at this. + + +# IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-06-19 + + <bdefreese> OK, how the heck do you get an undefined reference to mremap? + <youpi> simply because we don't have it + <pinotree> mremap exists only on linux + <bdefreese> It's in sys/mman.h + <pinotree> on linux? + <bdefreese> No, on GNU/Hurd + <bdefreese> /usr/include/i386-gnu/sys/mman.h + <youpi> that's just the common file with linux + <youpi> containing just the prototype + <youpi> that doesn't mean there's an implementation behind + <pinotree> youpi: hm no, linux has an own version + <youpi> uh + <bdefreese> Ah, aye, I didn't look at the implementation.. :( + <youpi> it's then odd that it was added to the generic sys/mman.h :) + <bdefreese> Just another stub? + <pinotree> ah, only few linux archs have own versions + <youpi> for the macro values I guess + <pinotree> http://paste.debian.net/175173/ on glibc/master + <bdefreese> Hmm, so where is MREMAP_MAYMOVE coming in from? + <youpi> rgrep on a linux box ;) + <youpi> <bits/mman.h> + <youpi> but that's again linuxish + <bdefreese> Aye but with us having that in the header it is causing some + code to be run which utilizes mremap. If that wasn't defined we wouldn't + be calling it. + <youpi> ah + <youpi> we could try to remove it indeed + <bdefreese> Should I change the code to #ifdef MREMAP_MAYMOVE & !defined + __GNU__? + <youpi> no, I said we could remove the definition of MREMAP_MAYMOVE itself |